In a humble effort to follow in the footsteps of the great song collectors of yesteryear like John A. Lomax, Carl Sandburg, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Jack Thorp, et al, Old Time Blues presents the Old Time Blues Digital Songbag, a virtual songbook of lyrics, primarily of folk and blues interest and dating to the 1920s and 1930s, collected and transcribed by R. Connor Montgomery from primary source material (phonograph records, original sheet music, and songbooks) held within the Old Time Blues Collection.
Transcriptions of “scat” lyrics and yodels are approximate. Guitar chords, if provided, are usually aurally identified and may not be accurate, nor the most ideal method of playing the song in question.
≡ Table of Contents ≡
- All-Go-Hungry Hash House
- Beautiful Texas
- Blue Yodel No. 8 (Mule Skinner Blues)
- Blue Yodel No. 10 (Ground Hog Rootin’ in My Back Yard)
- Brown’s Ferry Blues
- Bury Me Out on the Prairie (The Cowboy’s Lament)
- Death of Floyd Collins
- Deep Elem Blues
- Fire-Wood Man
- Franklin Roosevelt’s Back Again
- In 1992
- In the Jailhouse Now
- It’s Tight Like That
- Jim Jackson’s Kansas City Blues
- Kisses
- Looking for a New Mama
- My Red-Haired Lady
- N. R. A. Blues
- Penitentiary Blues
- See That My Grave is Kept Clean
- St. James Infirmary
- Stay in the Wagon Yard
- The Brakeman’s Blues
- The Club Meeting
- The Little Old Sod Shanty
- Match Box Blues
- The Mythological Blues
- The Preacher and the Bear
- True Blue Bill
- Willie, the Chimney Sweeper
